724th Friday Blog Roundup

We forgot to watch our usual winter movies this year: About a Boy, Love Actually, and Lord of the Rings.  There’s still time for Lord of the Rings — we knew December would be busy, so we’ve already decided to start the first movie in the trilogy in January.  But About a Boy and Love Actually contain Christmas.  You can’t watch Christmas movies after Christmas.  That’s like watching beach movies in October.  I mean… yeah… I get that people do it, but it feels discordant.

I’ll probably let Love Actually go, but I may try to work in About a Boy tonight.

Do you have winter movies?  What are they?

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Stop procrastinating.  Go make your backups.  Don’t have regrets.

Seriously.  Stop what you’re doing for a moment.  It will take you fifteen minutes, tops.  But you will have peace of mind for days and days.  It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.

As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments in order to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.

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And now the blogs…

But first, second helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week.  In order to read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• None… sniff.

Okay, now my choices this week.

Little Bird has a post about thoughts that come after she crosses back and forth over a bridge during a busy day.  When she stops moving, her brain turns on: “My first thought: I miss Charlotte. That’s usually the first thought when things get quiet. Then: This has been a really hard year.”  There is good in the hard, a new baby in the hard, but it is still hard.  And I love her goal: “My 2019 goal is to get a little bit better. I’m not planning on moving soul mountains, but if I could shift my perspective even slightly towards more positivity we’d all benefit.”

POF and Now What looks at a heart-pausing moment from two angles.  A comment her daughter makes takes on new meaning through the lens of donor eggs.  I’m not going to say more than that because it’s a short post, and I think it packs the biggest punch if you go in and hear the words as she did in the moment.  It’s a great reminder that what seems one way to us can seem quite different to someone else.  I also love, “Back in the box, you thousand thoughts.”

Lastly, Not a Wasted Word has a post about being pregnancy avoidant.  Even though her family building days are behind her, she still feels strange around people who are pregnant.  I love this self reflection: “I tell myself it’s because pregnancy terrifies me … I kind of hope that is what is happening, otherwise it feels like I’m just begrudging people their happiness during one of the most exciting times of their life.”  It made me think of my own pregnancy avoidance, trying to get to the heart of the reason.

The roundup to the Roundup: I missed my winter movies.  Your weekly backup nudge.  And lots of great posts to read.  So what did you find this week?  Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between December 14th and December 21st) and not the blog’s main url. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week?  Read the original open thread post here.